President Reagan's Westminster Address

In a forum titled, “The Ash Heap of History: President Reagan’s Westminster Address 20 Years Later,” participants marked…
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In a forum titled, “The Ash Heap of History: President Reagan’s Westminster Address 20 Years Later,” participants marked the twentieth anniversary of the address in which President Reagan challenged Communist powers on moral grounds, saying they would eventually be defeated by individual liberty, representative government and the rule of law.

This second panel addressed the topic “The Reaction to and Legacy of the Address.” They talked about the immediate reaction to the speech by Europe and the U.S., its long-term impact on U.S. foreign policy, and its influence on the end of the Cold War close

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*The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.